Notes from Howard's Sabbatical from Working. The name comes from a 1998 lunch conversation. Someone asked if everything man knew was on the web. I answered "no" and off the top of my head said "Fidel Castro's favorite color". About every 6-12 months I've searched for this. It doesn't show up in the first 50 Google results (this blog is finally first for that search), AskJeeves says it's: red.

Friday, May 22, 2009

Astronomy Night

Tonight was the last CfA Monthly Observatory Night of the season. Marcia Bartusiak gave a talk based on her new book, The Day We Found the Universe about the various other people involved that led up to Hubble's discovery of galaxies and an expanding universe. It was a little too much history and not enough science for me, but she's a good speaker and it was interesting.

The host, while introducing her, mentioned her previous book, Archives of the Universe: 100 Discoveries That Transformed Our Understanding of the Cosmos. which I coincidently had bought as part of a sale at Border's but haven't read yet. Now I'm looking forward to doing so.

Afterwards there was some very nice observing on the roof. I saw four different viewings of Saturn and Titan, which never gets old. We also saw, M13, the Ring Nebula, the double double, and another double star that I'm not sure which it was but one star was clearly blue and another clearly white, it might have been Sheliak.

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